New speed sensor device and circuit board:

Linn Ekstatik moving coil cartridge:

This is the biggest Linn moving coil cartridge box I've ever had, because the Ekstatik is such a special cartridge it needs a large custom wood box to breath properly :-)

That's FRESH!*

Thanks for the pictorial Tony. Looking forward to hearing your impressions and insights when you update later on. Enjoy the running in process!


*I'm trying out new up-to-date lingo overheard from our twenty-something here visiting for the holidays

Great photos thanks.
Wow Tom's place looks fantastic!!

Here's another Christmas present from a Scottish relative. She knows I like really the Linn Sondek and she knows Linn is located in Glasgow as well. So as such, it's a printed cotton map of Scotland which we had professionally matted and framed, with museum grade glass. Glasgow can be seen near the lower area of the map.

Discodave wrote: ↑2021-12-26 17:40 Great photos thanks.
Wow Tom's place looks fantastic!!

Thank you for the comments, I'm glad you like the pictures. And the new Overture Audio shop does look fantastic, it's the nicest facility of all three locations. The new location is bigger with plenty of showrooms, and storage space for everything needed. Plus, it has a better floor plan with beautiful amenities as well.

Scooter62 wrote: ↑2021-12-26 15:54 That's FRESH!*

Thanks for the pictorial Tony. Looking forward to hearing your impressions and insights when you update later on. Enjoy the running in process!


*I'm trying out new up-to-date lingo overheard from our twenty-something here visiting for the holidays

Thanks for the compliments Scooter, and I'll be sure to report my findings, impressions and insights. By the way, be sure to let us know how the new Lingo is sounding!

Happy New Year!

Here's a fun question regarding the photo shown below. Does anybody know what's in the framed picture, which is seen near the right side of the turntable?

Looks like a very Macro pic of an elliptical stylus Groovin' on an early Piros press -72' to be exact- Zeppelin I, opening track, 23 secs in?

Great Pictures indeed. Seems like you climbing an audio Munroe. Some work Tony. Raise a glass of Islay, Slainte. And I love the map, gives me good memories of Glasgow, the western Islands like Uist, Barra, Aran, and some Munroes, like the Ben Nevis.
The picture, is it a stack of unfortunate left CD’s?

tpetsch wrote: ↑2021-12-28 20:13 Looks like a very Macro pic of an elliptical stylus Groovin' on an early Piros press -72' to be exact- Zeppelin I, opening track, 23 secs in?

Good guess, it's actually 19 seconds in ;-)

Arjen wrote: ↑2021-12-29 02:07 The picture, is it a stack of unfortunate left CD’s?

Thank you for the kind words Arjen, they're much appreciated. As it turns out, the side picture isn't a stack of unfortunate CD's (although it does look like that). Actually, two people have correctly identified and agreed the side picture is "a very macro picture of an elliptical stylus, grooving on an early 1972 Led Zeppelin l album, opening track. And it was Tpetsch that correctly identified the picture, and then Tendaberry confirmed.

Cheers

Hurray for Tpetsch then, but nothing ventured nothing gained. And after you refurbished your TT, your CD’s might unfortunate be stacked like that in the end as becoming useless for now.

Well it certainly is a photograph of an elliptical stylus in a groove. I'll leave the rest of it to the (obviously) fertile imaginations of some on the forum!

Imagination is where photography, arts and music starts Tom. It is in the eye and the ear of the beholder.

Tendaberry wrote: ↑2021-12-29 12:44

tpetsch wrote: ↑2021-12-28 20:13 Looks like a very Macro pic of an elliptical stylus Groovin' on an early Piros press -72' to be exact- Zeppelin I, opening track, 23 secs in?

Good guess, it's actually 19 seconds in ;-)

Arjen wrote: ↑2021-12-29 19:59 Imagination is where photography, arts and music starts Tom. It is in the eye and the ear of the beholder.

This forum needs a "Like" button!

Arjen wrote: ↑2021-12-29 19:59 Imagination is where photography, arts and music starts Tom. It is in the eye and the ear of the beholder.

Being an artist, photographer and musician I thoroughly agree. But you left out humor!

ThomasOK wrote: ↑2021-12-29 23:59

Arjen wrote: ↑2021-12-29 19:59 Imagination is where photography, arts and music starts Tom. It is in the eye and the ear of the beholder.

Being an artist, photographer and musician I thoroughly agree. But you left out humor!

;)

Tony Tune-age wrote: ↑2011-03-27 00:47 Linn Sondek Turntable: Chris Harban Movingui plinth, Trampolin II, Cirkus bearing system, Keel, Akurate Radikal, Ekos II, Akiva moving coil cartridge and Linto. A new Linn Dynamik power supply has been orderd for the Radikal, and a Linn Urika phono preamplifier will be installed at the same time.

Quoting Enjoy 2022 and Keep it Simple, Let’s play this Van Morrison record you got there, we’re gonna dance to the rock & roll, folks you know how you feel when the healing at speed 33,33333333 has begun.

tpetsch wrote: ↑2021-12-29 21:46

Tendaberry wrote: ↑2021-12-29 12:44

tpetsch wrote: ↑2021-12-28 20:13 Looks like a very Macro pic of an elliptical stylus Groovin' on an early Piros press -72' to be exact- Zeppelin I, opening track, 23 secs in?

Good guess, it's actually 19 seconds in ;-)

Arjen wrote: ↑2021-12-29 19:59 Imagination is where photography, arts and music starts Tom. It is in the eye and the ear of the beholder.

This forum needs a "Like" button!

Good idea...

My how things have changed with my LP12, since March 27th, 2011. And although it certainly sounded good at that time, it's light years beyond that level now. And during the entire process, I have appreciated & enjoyed every step of the way too! And as turntables go, the LP12 is my favorite...

Thanks again Arjen, I will certainly play the "Keep It Simple" album by Van Morrison, and will post a recording as well. In addition, I will post comparison links of the previous cartridge & power supply, along with the current cartridge and power supply.

Here's to keeping it simple...

Arjen wrote: ↑2021-12-30 14:04

Tony Tune-age wrote: ↑2011-03-27 00:47 Linn Sondek Turntable: Chris Harban Movingui plinth, Trampolin II, Cirkus bearing system, Keel, Akurate Radikal, Ekos II, Akiva moving coil cartridge and Linto. A new Linn Dynamik power supply has been orderd for the Radikal, and a Linn Urika phono preamplifier will be installed at the same time.

Quoting Enjoy 2022 and Keep it Simple, Let’s play this Van Morrison record you got there, we’re gonna dance to the rock & roll, folks you know how you feel when the healing at speed 33,33333333 has begun.

At every level each step anytime a joy for 2022 and forever Tony! Hearing forward to a decade of your ‘simple twist of change’ presented by good ol’ Van.

Arjen wrote: ↑2021-12-29 18:33 And after you refurbish your TT, your CD’s might unfortunately be stacked like that in the end as becoming useless for now.

Eventually we'll either donate our CD's to the public library, or give them to somebody...

Arjen wrote: ↑2021-12-30 13:30

ThomasOK wrote: ↑2021-12-29 23:59

Arjen wrote: ↑2021-12-29 19:59 Imagination is where photography, arts and music starts Tom. It is in the eye and the ear of the beholder.

Being an artist, photographer and musician I thoroughly agree. But you left out humor!

;)

Humor is very important too (+1)